In the natural world, a bird’s beak is far more than just a mouth. It is a highly specialised multi-tool, refined over the years to master specific environments. While we often marvel at feathers or ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A shorebird with a “comically long” bill thrilled bird lovers for weeks when it unexpectedly turned up on Harbor Island east of ...

With no humans to leave behind scraps, this urban bird evolved and developed a longer beak, which shrank again once people came back. Reading time 3 minutes The pandemic had a noticeable impact on the ...

For ecologists, the Covid-19 pandemic has presented a remarkable natural experiment in what can happen to wild animals when humans stay home. By Emily Anthes About two decades ago, the dark-eyed junco ...